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Geographic Range

We extend some 400 km down the east coast of southern Queensland from Bundaberg to the NSW border and west 1700 km to the NT border past Birdsville. The annual rainfall ranges from 160 mm in the west to 1850 mm in the east. If you have postcodes 4000-4470 and 4479-4670 you are one of our 690 members. This is a diverse area from the white dunes of the World Heritage Fraser Island to the red dunes of the Simpson Desert National Park. In between are beaches, mountains, and plains containing wetlands, heaths, rainforests, mulga and brigalow scrubs, grasslands, eucalypt forests and woodlands.

Latest News

BASQ e-News: Rosella Feathers (2 September 2010)

BASQ Committee Minutes 2010: 8 May; 18 July
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Special birds of the region

Most special about this climatically and floristically diverse region is the great number (approximately 480) of birds found here. Species from the tropical north cross over with species from the temperate south. Some of particular interest include: Pale-headed Rosella (the group mascot), Red Goshawk, Pacific Baza, Black-breasted Button-quail, Albert's Lyrebird, Grey Grasswren, Eyrean Grasswren, Logrunner, Hall's Babbler, Paradise Riflebird, Russet-tailed Thrush.

Projects in the region

Current projects involve monitoring the clean-up of the Moreton Bay oil spill, and surveys of Brisbane City Council Land for Wildlife properties.

Conservation issues

A number of interested organisations have joined together as the Stock Routes Coalition.The Coalition is working to have the NSW and Queensland Stock Routes declared 'Protected Corridors for Travelling Stock and Biodiversity', managed by the current managers and adequately resourced with supplements from public funds. For more information, see the new website: www.stockroutes.info

Activities

BASQ members take part any many activities directed towards the Birds Australia objective of achieving conservation through knowledge. See the list on the BASQ activities page.

What's On

Rosella Feathers
This is an e-newsletter with details of current and future activities. It is emailed to anyone who requests it. See the latest issue.

Coming events
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Contacts

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Address: 32 Panoramic Drive, Narangba, Qld, 4504

Publications

BASQ produce a quarterly newsletter Rosella Ramblings included in Wingspan, and an irregular email newsletter Rosella Feathers sent to those who request it.

Rosella Ramblings March 2010 Vol 7 No 1
Rosella Ramblings June 2010 Vol 7 No 2

Committee Feb 2010